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| Author(s): |
Ingrid Horák
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2010-02-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Pablo Vidal Torrado;
Marcia Aguiar de Barros;
Antonio Marttinez Cortizas
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| Advisor: | Pablo Vidal Torrado |
| Abstract | |
The peat bogs are special environments for studies that seek to understand the evolution of landscapes due to climate change reporting the temporal and spatial vegetation dynamics. These are constituted of histosols with great indicator potential due to the high carbon content and anoxic environment, conditions preserving the organic matter and organisms deposited in the past times. The Pau-de-Fruta Special Protection Area (SPA) located into the Mountain Range Espinhaço Southern (Brazil) has a peat bog deposit developed in the depressions of the dissected areas interspersed to the planning surfaces, where the histosols genesis takes place by the accumulation of organic material. Nowadays, the area is colonized by different vegetation physiognomy of the Cerrado Biome, mainly rupestre and wet fileds, beyond of redoubts of semidecidual stationary forests, called Capon Forests, where sometime under more humid climate conditions these were more developed. The work was constituted of the application of bioindicators, such as carbon ( 13C dating and 14C) and nitrogen ( 15N) isotopes, and palynomorphs assemblages, in a Histosol profile together with description and characterization data of the soil, aiming to infer the environmental conditions in the Quaternary, and thus to reconstruct the chronological sequence of events occurred during the formation of this deposit. The oldest age of this peat bog was obtained by Campos (2009) based on a profile located to 1.360 m of altitude, with 20.359 ± 230 years BP, wherefore, the evidences are the formation of this deposit began in the top during the Superior Pleistocene. Later, in the Holocene Lower, the conditions provided the formation of peat from upstream to downstream. In the point of this study, the installation process began in 8.090 ± 30 years BP, the 1.350 m high and 2,3 km from the top. The more humid and cooler weather (than the present) during the Pleistocene (before 20.359 years ± AP) went through dryer periods during Last Glacial Maximum (between 20.000- 14.000 years BP), and gradually became warmer in Holocene Lower/Middle East, but with constant moisture fluctuations, to the stabilization of climate, similar to today. Based on pollen assemblages, it was observed that in humid and warm periods of the Holocene Lower / Middle East occured the expansion of humid fields, decidual forest of the Gallery, rupestre fields and Savannah. The occurrence of the Myrtaceae Gallery Forest, in ± 5.900 years BP, and the formation of a pond, in ± 5.200 years BP, were the wettest period recorded. Soils of these periods showed high contributions of organic matter (OM) and highest density of organic matter (OM), beyond the presence of preserved plant debris. Constant dry periods, there are signs of more 13C enriched, sparse vegetation (low concentration of palynomorphs) and few pollen types, such as those found in ± 6.700, ± 2.500 and ± 200 (?) years BP, also showed high levels of mineral material (MM), minimal residual (MR) and bulk density (Ds). Also, the organic matter was stratified into three types of material from different levels of decomposition (von Post classes and fiber content), with predominance of the more advanced (sáprico), so, characterizing the peat bog as a pedogenetic deposit highly advanced. (AU) | |